There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.